Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD

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My name is Lux ATL, and I am a mother, wife, business owner, former university instructor, and lifelong stripper. From the halls of academia to the strip club stage, my life as a post-academic feminist sex worker has been filled with unique sociological insight, unforgettable friendships, and a thousand beautiful messes in between. These are my true stories of the highs and lows of an ex-academic and lifelong stripper pole dancing for pay on stages all across the South.

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052: A Great Many Things

May 31 2017 22 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today's episode explores the secrets we keep locked behind the door we call a smile. Today's episode is about my ancestors, the women who came before me, and the legends we've built in their wake. Today's story—is about you, in all your complex multiplicity. There are a great many thin

051: Dear Strippers

May 24 2017 21 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. There's only one more episode left after this one. Today’s episode is a letter to other strippers—dancers the world abroad, as well as certain special friends I've worked with. Today’s episode is dedicated to you, my sisters in heels. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at faceboo

050: Let me Dance for You

May 17 2017 24 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. I have been on a break for a month, touring Australia and New Zealand. Now I'm home, and ready to finish out this whole podcast series! Today’s episode is about performativity, complexity, and having two different universes going on in one life. Today’s episode intersperses diary ent

049: Falling in Love

Mar 29 2017 24 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about falling in love with two very different men. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can

048: Who Mans the Panopticon

Mar 22 2017 17 mins

I’ve talked a lot about stripping and falling in and out of love with sex work, but I haven’t talked a lot about my time falling in and out of love with professional intellectualism--so today, I want to talk about that. Today's episode is about the first time when I quit my life as a full-time stripper to commit myself to a "respectable" life, dove into scholarship, and brought

047: Whores Get What Whores Deserve

Mar 15 2017 19 mins

Today’s episode takes a walk through my earliest days stripping when I was learning to harness the power of all of the evil epithets that have been slung at me my whole life. Whores get what whores deserve, so I’m about to show you just what a whore can get. You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these tr

046: A Hustler Never Dies

Feb 22 2017 16 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how this story ends--it’s really bigger than quitting stripping, isn't it. I was a stripper my whole life, and I’m not that anymore. Sometimes as you grow, on the one hand you’re excited, but on the other hand, you mourn the loss of who you used to

045: Pages From the Diaries of My Youth

Feb 15 2017 19 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. I have kept diaries since I was five years old. I have 30 years of content. I always thought someday I would be famous. Well, I don’t know how famous I am, but I thought you might want to hear some of the entries from my youth. So that is what I’m going to do today. As painful and em

044: Trespasser

Feb 08 2017 14 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Today’s episode is about a topic that people don’t often like to talk about. That topic is race. Today’s episode is about a life long process that needs examination no matter how imperfect or incomplete. This episode is about times, when I guess…I’ve trespassed. You can conne

043: My Mother's Story

Feb 01 2017 19 mins

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. Stripcast has been my story. However, my story is a legacy, the culmination of an inheritance. So today, I'm going to share my mother's story—at least as small glimpse, anyway. I don’t know everything about her. Like she always told me when I was growing up, "I had a whole big life b